Ayana Jackson

 

The Negro, as already observed, exhibits the natural man in his completely wild and untamed state. We must lay aside all thought of reverence and morality – all that we call feeling – if we would rightly comprehend him; there is nothing harmonious with humanity to be found in this type of character. The copious and circumstantial accounts of Missionaries completely confirm this. At this point we leave Africa, not to mention it again. For it is no historical part of the World; it has no movement or development to exhibit.  — G.W.F. Hegel (1770 – 1831)